{"id":10075,"date":"2012-08-24T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T19:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=10075"},"modified":"2012-09-11T15:04:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T21:04:37","slug":"data-shows-idaho-is-short-on-doctors-has-that-affected-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/08\/24\/data-shows-idaho-is-short-on-doctors-has-that-affected-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Idaho&#8217;s Doctor Shortage Affected You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10196\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/08\/57260724.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10196\" title=\"Doctor \" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/08\/57260724-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/08\/57260724-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/08\/57260724-620x413.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Joe Raedle \/ Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>A 2011 study by the Association of American Medical Colleges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aamc.org\/download\/263512\/data\/statedata2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ranks Idaho second to last<\/a> when it comes to the number of physicians per capita.\u00a0 By this measure, Idaho is short on doctors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aamc.org\/download\/263512\/data\/statedata2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">According to the report, <\/a>there are 2,873 active physicians in Idaho.\u00a0 That&#8217;s 184 doctors for every 100,000 people.\u00a0 The only state with fewer doctors per 100,000 people is Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p>Over the<del><\/del> coming months,\u00a0<em>StateImpact<\/em> will explore how we got here, and if the numbers are as dire as they seem.\u00a0 But we need your help.\u00a0 Have you had a hard time getting a doctor&#8217;s appointment?\u00a0 Do you know someone who has?\u00a0 We&#8217;d like to hear your stories.\u00a0 Send an email to ersaunders@stateimpact.org with the subject line <em>Doctor Shortage<\/em> and we&#8217;ll be in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2011 study by the Association of American Medical Colleges ranks Idaho second to last when it comes to the number of physicians per capita.  By this measure, Idaho is short on doctors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":10196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[183,65],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10221,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075\/revisions\/10221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}